# hold over

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/hold-over
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

(Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limited period.

## Examples

- This bread will hold us over until dinner.
- We ate a small breakfast to hold us over until the big lunch meeting.
- The meager savings, carefully rationed, would hold him over until the first paycheck arrived from the new job.

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